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Even i can't understand this, this is the river we worship and revere¹ and whose waters we consider holy, yet we remain silent about its desecration².

S claimed the pollution is caused by other towns and cities on the Ganges, and not by them. Water and sanitation³ remains⁴ a colossal⁵ issue in India, up to 600 million people here don't have access to a toilet, one study discovered the bacteria from sewage in the Ganges was 12,000 times permissible⁶ levels for bathing. The Ganges and other Indian rivers are horrifically polluted, and successive Indian governments have failed to clean them up.

I travelled another 200 miles to Varanasi, one of the most sacred Hindu holy cities.

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